Scelio oedipodae Ashmead, 1893:242 (key), 245, ♂♀. Types, Arlington, Va. (Coll. Ashmead); Masner & Muesebeck, 1968Masner, L. & C.F.W. Muesebeck 1968. The Types of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the United States National Museum. 270:1-143.:44, Lectotype ♀ (USNM, no. 24547); Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33.:12, Lectotype ♀ (USNM, 24547). - Dalla Torre, 1898Dalla Torre, C.G. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, V. Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, VII + 598. (distribution); Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198. (distribution).
Scelio rufiventris Ashmead, 1893:242 (key), 245, ♀. Holotype ♀, Fort George, Fla., August, 1882 (Coll. Ashmead, leg. Dr. R.S. Turner); Masner & Muesebeck, 1968Masner, L. & C.F.W. Muesebeck 1968. The Types of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the United States National Museum. 270:1-143.:45, Holotype ♀ (USNM, no. 24548); Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33.:12, Holotype (USNM, 25458). Synonymized with Scelio oedipodae Ashmead, 1893 by Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33.:11. - Dalla Torre, 1898Dalla Torre, C.G. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, V. Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, VII + 598. (distribution).